Interesting. My dad worked somewhere at a missle launch site in the Marshall islands back in the early to mid 60’s. The missles contained cameras. He never told me exactly of what they were taking pictures of. They would pick the payload back up, they knew exactly where it would land. He also told me back then they could hit a warhead with a missle. I didn’t ask for details. He got real mad when I asked him about UFOs.
-SB
Cool my dad was a radio operator at a Nike site. Still remember playing astronaut with his old headsets.
My dad was a USAF "intercept technician" in the 20th AF at the beginning of the Korean War. He told me that more than once he vectored a night/all-weather fighter out to something on the radar and whatever it was shook up the crew once they made visual contact. Dad's take was (as close as I can remember), "I didn't know what the hell was out there, but those guys saw something; when they'd holler about how it was now moving away at an incredible rate of speed, I could actually watch it move like a bat out of hell on the 'scope until it was out of range. Those guys almost all had some WWII experience and didn't rattle easily. When they were debriefed they were always told by somebody up the chain that it was either natural phenomena or was all in their head."
Why did your dad get mad when you asked him about UFOs?